Taxi bombs planted way before operation - the aftermath

Police officers investigating the terror attack now believe that four terrorists in groups of two planted bombs in the two taxis that they had taken to their targets. The bombs in the two taxis — one detonated at the Dockyard and the other at Vile Parle — went off killing five people and injuring two on Wednesday night.One bomb exploded inside a taxi 300 metres away from the domestic airport killing the taxi driver, a Hyderabad based lawyer called Laxminarayan Goyal and two others. Minutes later, the next bomb went off at the Dockyard near Byculla killing taxi driver Phoolchand Bhim, a woman passenger and another woman who was passing by.“Mohammed Ajmal Mohammed Amir Kasab (21), the only terrorist to be captured alive told us that all the ten terrorists got off a boat three nautical miles away from Mumbai and reached the Machhimar Colony in front of Badhwar Park in Cuffe Parade in a speed boat. They formed five teams of two and took taxis to reach their targets,” said Mr Rakesh Maria, joint commissioner of police, crime.According to him, four teams left for the Taj Mahal Hotel, Oberoi Trident Hotel and Nariman House, while the fifth left for CST railway station. “We now suspect that they had planted the bombs before getting out of the taxis. Ajmal has told us that they paid the taxi fare completely, so as to not arouse suspicions,” added Mr Maria.